Dear Editor,
We are told that it’s not the Ministry of Finance that’s responsible for late/non-payment of salaries to public servants.
We are further advised that it’s the agencies concerned that have to answer for the problem.
Well then those very agencies must provide answers explaining what they did with the allocations provided in their 2018 current budget for employment costs as per line items:
6111, 6112, 6113, 6114,6115,6116 and 6117 which they claimed, during consideration of current and capital estimates for 2018 is sufficient to cover employment costs for FY 2018 at their respective agencies and departments.
The culpable government agencies and departments must be doing their own thing by employing persons and paying them high salaries without approval from the Ministry of Finance.
This is tantamount to ransacking the allocations appropriated to them legally by the National Assembly.
Some Ministers, in complicity with their Permanent Secretaries are on a spending spree doing all kinds of crazy things for political expediency with their allocations under current approval by the National Assembly.
Small wonder why this problem keeps recurring so often to the detriment of public servants. It’s a situation of total interagency anarchy.
So goes the APNU+AFC lullaby.
Yours faithfully,
Clement J. Rohee
